Forest Practices Act 1985

Where an application for the declaration of land as a private timber reserve has been made in accordance with section 5, other than for a minor boundary extension, the Authority is to cause a notice containing the prescribed particulars to be published in the daily newspapers published in this State and a copy of the notice to be sent to the local authority exercising jurisdiction over the land and any local authority exercising jurisdiction over any land adjacent to that land.

For the purposes of subsection (1), prescribed particulars means – a description of the area of land to which the application relates; a statement advising that objections to the declaration as a private timber reserve of the area of land described in the advertisement may be lodged with the Authority by the date specified in the notice, being a date not earlier than 28 days after the date on which the notice is published in the newspaper; and such other particulars of the application as the Authority considers necessary.

Any person may, on payment of the fee prescribed in the regulations, inspect an application made under section 5 at the office of Private Forests Tasmania.